Anastasia Borschevsky appointed Professor of Computational Atomic and Molecular Physics

Anastasia Borschevsky was promoted to Professor per January 1st, 2025. She is appointed at the Aletta Jacobs chair of Computational atomic and molecular physics at the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen.

In her interdisciplinary research, Anastasia applies state-of-the-art methods from computational chemistry to address fundamental problems in physics. The focus of her work are high accuracy relativistic calculations of atomic and molecular properties, addressing two main topics: 1) search for physics beyond the Standard Model with atoms and molecules and 2) investigations of properties of heavy and superheavy elements and ions. Most of the work in her group is carried out in direct collaboration with experimental teams, both at the University of Groningen and internationally. In addition, she has an active collaboration with ARCNL.

Anastasia received her PhD in 2010, from Tel Aviv University. Since then, she worked as a postdoc at Massey University (Auckland, New Zealand) and at the GSI (Darmstadt, Germany) before joining the Precision Frontier of the Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity in 2015 on a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship. Since then, she has successfully established her own research group, which currently consists of 3 PhD students and 3 postdocs. In addition, Anastasia is presently co-supervising two experimental PhD candidates of the Precision Frontier.

Her research is funded by amongst others an NWO Vidi grant (2019) for the large-scale development project, "High Sector Fock space coupled cluster method: benchmark accuracy across the periodic table" and an NWO-XL grant (2022) for the project “Using cold molecules to search for fundamental asymmetry’ (together with colleagues from UG, Nikhef, VU and Uva – the ‘NL-eEDM programme’).

Anastasia is an active member of the scientific community. This is most evident from the multitude of collaborations she is involved in, but also by the initiation in 2019 of WISE, the UG organization for Woman in Science and Engineering, which Anastasia set up together with her colleague Shirin Faraji. WISE provides female early career researchers in STEM with a platform to meet and exchange ideas, through organization of several special events, regular monthly meetings and as an informal forum.